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https://www.science.org/content/article/fossil-teeth-reveal-previously-unknown-human-ancestor-eastern-africa
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09390-4
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On 8/13/2025 12:32 PM, Ernest Major wrote:

https://www.science.org/content/article/fossil-teeth-reveal-previously- unknown-human-ancestor-eastern-africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09390-4

I recall they first announced this fossil as a robust australopithicine.
I do not know if it would be out of the range of existing fossils of
that type. Robust australopithicines have been known to have coexisted
with Homo since Leakey's finds in the 1960's.

Ron Okimoto

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